WEBVTT - School Boards: The New Fashy Frontline, Part 2 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:10.720 What second? My part of this episode on right wing 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.319 attempts to attack and dominate school board meetings in order 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.400 to further their ability to do violence on marginalized groups 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:27.479 and also erode democratic institutions from the ground. Uh. Stage title, Yeah, yeah, 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.720 that'll that'll click. Well Ah, I'm solutely glad. We don't 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:36.120 have to worry about clicking and titles. And that took 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.320 up a lot of my mind back in the day, Garrison, 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.199 back when, back when the internet was different. Now we 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.080 don't have to worry about that anymore. But we do 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.880 have to worry about our mobs of fascists attacking school 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.360 board meetings. It happens every week, keeps happening more often. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.640 School boards are calling for assistance. That they seem pretty, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.920 they seem pretty not thrilled. Yeah, they seem not psyched 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.880 about that. So we're we're we're. When we left off, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.320 I was talking about some things I found on the 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:08.960 gram Telegram. Uh, Garrison, what's next. I'll go into my 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:13.320 preliminary research on Telegram and particularly response. Basically, I looked 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.600 through every single Telegram post and all of the main 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.000 fascist channels I lurk on that mentioned school boards from 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.160 like the past two weeks. Um, So like yeah, this 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.680 is like current current stuff on ongoing. Um. I got 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.720 to a lot of the channels I was already familiar with, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.560 like you know, the Western Shapnist channel, which is uh 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.360 subs um, the Standard Students channel, which was a when 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:39.279 I was less familiar with, specifically dedicated to this school 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.720 board issue. Um. One of one of the posts I 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.640 we have on there is h says your enemy isn't 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.320 some far off ship whole country. Your enemy is just 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.880 down the street at your local school board meeting, teaching 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.640 your kids to hate their ancestors, you and themselves. So 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.440 like again, that is a very much white supremacist dog 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.639 whistle just right there, um talking about producing Hollywood movies 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:08.200 writing they're not whistle basically, it's basically just a whistle. Um. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.760 So yeah. They then they, you know, the same post 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.560 talks about you know, masks and shuting down businesses and 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.079 the vaccines and stuff and saying the fight is here 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.640 and the fight is now. So just in terms of like, yeah, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.400 they're really wanting to hype people up for doing this 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.440 thing at school boards. They're trying to really hammer down 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.680 the school board points. So like I found this. I 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.399 found this post. This is This is a post from 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.400 the Standford Students channel um and I saw this one 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.920 re shared in a lot of different channels. One of 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.000 the other first ones that I saw pop off was 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.160 from Ron watkins channel like Code monkey z. He is 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.280 one of the one of the architects or one of 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.200 the you know people who really pushed Q and on 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:49.720 stuff into He's the guy who ran like the physical 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.240 infrastructure of a chan and eight coon for years. Yeah. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.840 He and he's trying to pivot into being like having 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.720 his just his face be like a kind of alternative 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.440 right wing figure right now. Uh, he's gonna be running 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.720 for office in Arizona, I believe. Anyway, he has a 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.360 very popular telegram channel, um and he he made he 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.840 made this post that had over a thousand, over a 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.280 thousand comments on it, which is a lot for telegram. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.840 A thousand comments on telegram post, especially telegram post of 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.639 of code mackezs size. I't see how many subs does it? 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.119 So Ron, just for his context, Ron Watkins has four 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.120 hundred and thirty two thousand subscribers on his on his 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:34.800 Telegram channel. So yep. Anyway, Uh, CRT is being rebranded 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:40.160 as s e L a social emotional learning. If you 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.960 are attending school board meetings as you should be, do 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.880 what you can to make sure you stop both s 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.000 e L and CRT and keep them and make sure 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.800 that they are banned in your school districts. So again, 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.839 just direct calls to action for getting people to show 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.960 up to these school boards. And also, social emotional learning 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.560 is not CRT, and of course T is not even 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.680 taught in schools. I think everyone who listens to this 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.840 podcast knows that SRT, actually critical theory isn't taught in schools. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.760 This isn't an actual thing. It's it is like a 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.920 legal theory. We'll get into more of how this gout, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.840 like pushed towards the end. I think Chris has some 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.320 stuff prepared on that. Yeah we yeah, yeah, it's again 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.719 these none of these things are actually real. It's a 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.560 complex legal theory. What they're really mad about is their 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.960 people are teaching that racism is like an issue that's 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.000 built into a lot of American institutions and it's an 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.720 ongoing thing. It's not a thing of the past. That's 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.920 what they're actually mad about, and they just call that CRT. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.440 Some some of the comments from the Ron Watkins post, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.880 stuff like these snowflakes are so annoying. I'm about to 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.120 start cutting power to any school in my community that 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:45.120 teaches this. Um so yeah, more Again, that's just a direct, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:50.039 direct threat of doing terrorism. Should I mean less of 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:54.040 a threat and more of a promise? Yeah? Do that 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.560 it be? No? Sure it doesn't. All right, Well I 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.080 don't understand things the same way you zoomers do. Please continue. Yeah, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.440 a lot of a lot of posts being a shipped 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.480 around from channel to channel, including this full Nazi channels 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.240 were like trying to trying to of course, like a 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.000 lots of Nazis are actually you know, I thought it 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.479 was pretty funny that the that the school board union 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.159 put in a call to assistance to the federal government 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:17.880 to deal with this issue. They of course they thought 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.919 that was funny. But they're gonna use this to like 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.839 spread networks to be like, hey, the government wants to 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.560 stop you. They're calling you a terrorist. You like regular 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.640 folk are being called terrorists because you're showing up with 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.479 school boards, right, That's the kind of message that they're 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.760 going to shoot out. So they a lot of Nazi 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.039 channels crafted a lot of posts like that that got 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.560 shared around a lot. Yeah, in trying to basically all 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.960 time critical race theory and if you approached against critical 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.440 race theory, they're calling you a domestic terrorist. That that 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.159 type of thing. And this got this got shared in 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.160 the school boards channel and a whole bunch of whole 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.440 bunch of other stuff being being talking about how if you, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.479 if you stand up, you're gonna be a domestic terrorist. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.560 You have to be brave and do this. A few 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.400 days after the school board uh, not a few days, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.680 I guess this. This this was in like in October 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.479 um the school Association retracted some of the some of 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.919 the words that they used in their letter because of 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.520 this BackFlash that was created. And this was also shared 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.960 in shared in uh lots of fascist channels. The main 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.920 one who was shared in that I saw was the 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.480 Honk Pilled channel UM, which is just another type of 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.599 peppe meme um uh, one of the other one of 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.880 the other big, big kind of groups active in this 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:31.560 in this whole sphere. And this this has been a 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.440 group going on for a while and we haven't talked 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.680 about on the pod, but we probably should do something eventually. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.440 Is this group called White Rose so this is a 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.040 White Rose is a COVID conspiracy group that has been 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.680 very uh successful in creating on the ground organizers who 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.520 are regular people, and they do a lot of like 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.320 sticker bombs and lots of neighborhoods. If you have if 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.360 you ever seen anti like COVID or COVID conspiracy stickers 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.200 in your neighborhood, it was probably a White Rose sticker. UM. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.800 These are all over the States and basically every university. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.360 As a quick heads up, the original White Rose was 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:08.000 a student protest organization that existed in Nazi Germany UM 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:13.280 and protested illegally, and its organizers were executed by the Nazis. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:14.520 And I think it was the mid forty I mean 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.320 it would be like like forty three, maybe maybe forty four. UM. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.080 Sophie Shoal was the person most associated with them. So 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.640 they they're they're they've taken the names of these these heroes, 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.200 UM in order to it's just disgusting, it's very gross. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.080 There's there's a decent amount of decent amount of researchers 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.560 in this field thinks that there's like actual bad people 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.640 behind White Rose. Of course, with like bad people because 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.080 they're spending COVID stuff, but like like wait, like like 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.920 more like bad actors use basically astroturfing this thing, but 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.520 White rosters its own piece later. But because they have 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.440 such a big following on telegram, they are of course 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.720 using using this to using the school board thing to 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.560 gain more support they have about subscribers to their specific 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.640 telegram channel. They shared a post a few weeks ago 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.160 saying thank you to all the brave parents going out 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.400 to their school boards and standing up for the children. Um. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.600 And they try that, you know, get people to do 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.800 sticker bombs and stuff, but the fact that there's like 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.760 specifically calling out people in school boards is like an 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.880 extra step of like beyond just putting stickers up in 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.720 your neighborhood. Um. Another another another white right Rose post. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.480 They shared a shared a video UM that was captioned 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.880 as concerned parent absolutely destroys school board with facts. The 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.960 school boards are the battlefield of our time. This is 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.200 how it's done, and just the increasing rhetoric around like 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.560 battle fields, this is where like the fight is at 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:47.000 all that kind of stuff. Um. There was another another uh, 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.880 the white White Chauvinist channel shared a video from Fox 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.040 News UM and they they the Western Chauvinist channel, which 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:56.840 is again it's one of the most shared ones in 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.960 this whole network. They captioned this saying, parents and virgin 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.000 here are trying to fight back against the school board 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.760 that is anti white. Um, every every school district in 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.280 America needs to have an anti mandate pro right parents 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.240 running for the school board. So that's just the It's 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.320 this type of stuff all over and this this this 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.600 post was got it has like an eleven eleven thousand, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:24.960 eleven thousand views. Um, So these things are spreading to 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.680 a lot of a lot of these specific networks. And 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.480 I mean, I I have so many of this kind 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.560 of stuff. I'm not going to go through every single 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.280 one in detail. There's ones that are way more like 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.880 openly anti Semitic, uh, you know, saying, you know the 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.040 Jews that run you know, ex school board, um are 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.120 trying to force vaccinations on every student over twelve. Um. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.680 Other another Uh, there's this fake this is this this 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.160 fake Clint Eastwood channel on Telegram that's pretty popular. Someone 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.080 who's pretending to be Clint Eastwood that spread far right stuff. Um. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:55.959 He had a post that was shared a lot that 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.880 started by saying starts taking over school boards, start taking 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.680 over city council, start to ing over city boards. Um, 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.240 start to start being pull watchers, start being poll workers, 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.640 start taking over sheriff's departments. It's not enough just to vote. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.320 So this, this is the other thing that we're going 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.320 to see a lot more of, is rhetoric around voting. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.640 Isn't enough. You need to start doing more things. Um, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.800 there is one of it. Yeah, here, here's here's one. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.800 This is gonna this is a referencing some of the 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.679 trans stuff. I'll discussing a bit, but I just want 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.200 to tie it in now. A post from the Western 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.240 Chauvinist Channel saying there is no political solution, which is 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.760 a direct Nazi, a direct Nazi lie. I mean that. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.760 That's what I did an article early this year on 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.360 Riley Williams, the Nazi who stole Pelosi's laptop during the 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.760 Capitol riot, and then like the video that we were 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.040 able to identify her as a sig hiling Nazi, and 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.040 that's how she opened her quote, there is no political solution. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:54.840 It's a very common catchphrase among like the the fast right. Yeah, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.520 so there's been a lot of stuff around harassing, like 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.679 specific school board members harassing specific teacher. Was there was 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.800 this teacher in uh, I think in California that was 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.480 trying to like introduced like like anti fascist type rhetoric 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.520 and talking about how fascism is a modern thing. They 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.920 got absolutely bashed um and like docs um, and they 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.280 got it I think fired because there was like hundreds 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.360 of parents organizing on on apps like telegram to harass 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.200 this one teacher at school board's like you know, they 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.839 took over massive school board meetings and just talked about 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.920 this one teacher endlessly. Um. And it was even It's 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.520 interesting because like all the parents were like, yeah, Mike, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.079 my I got worried because my student actually really like 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.760 liked the teacher and said that they were doing like 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.520 giving really interesting points about like systemic issues. And the 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.360 parents were like and they brought their kids to the 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.200 school board meeting. There's the kids are just standing in 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.160 the back as their parents are ranting about this and 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.760 talking about how the kids actually, like I thought, they 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.839 were learning things about systemic issues. And then that got 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:56.960 people mad. So you know what else gets people mad? Uh? 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:14.679 This is advertisements. H And we're bad. We're gonna we're 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.560 gonna touch on the uh the specifics like all the 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.720 stuff we've been talking about. Most of the modern most 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.439 most of the current organizing is a lot of it's 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.280 around like mask mandates and vaccine mandates. Um, Like all 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.080 of this called like you know this the stool board channel. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.080 All of this kind of stuff is usually around vaccine, 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.839 vaccines and mask stuff. Uh, of course there's critic Royce 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.400 theory was the way more popular thing a few months ago. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.520 Right now is the vaccine thing. The other kind of 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:46.760 like ever present thing is being upset that trans kids 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.880 exist and being very fearful that that there are trans 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.560 kids around your kids. Uh. This is a thing that's been, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.400 you know, a thing for years that people have been 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.840 fighting against. And since the school board things becoming more popular, 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:05.719 people are are starting to, uh bring vasically do these 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.600 kind of flash mobs specifically around trans issues. Um. One 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.120 of like the more like astro turf type things was 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.120 people getting mad that there were like two specific books 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.679 available in certain high school and some middle school libraries. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.800 Um that one of it was like a like one 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.480 of it was the memoir that Robert mentioned. The other 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:31.320 one was like a graphic novel memorial about someone realizing 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.640 their gender queer. So these are books that are not 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.000 in curriculums. These are just books that are available at 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:40.280 the library. Um. And basically there was people who just 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.160 who found these out and got turned it into like 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.400 like a meme on telegram essentially, like people like sharing 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.400 information about this. Then you like look it up, see 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.400 if it's in your library. So then we have all 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.480 of these like coordinated attacks on school boards by these 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.520 mobs of people all about these same two books. Um. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.360 And the goals to not only just get the books 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.280 like banned, but they're also trying to like fire or 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.679 arrest the teachers and school board members for allowing these 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.960 books to happen. There has been school boy members who 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.360 have like stepped down because of just how much harassment 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.800 is about these things. Quote from the Western Chavinist channel, 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.040 Jesus Christ straight up pedophile books in our children's schools. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.160 Once again, the Jewish school board member gets mad and 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.000 try to shut them down. How can you not connect 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.080 the dots here? There's no political solution. Voting will not 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.920 remove these people. Um. There was the mayor of Houston, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.920 uh So in the mayor of Houston, Ohio heard about 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.880 this and he went to a school board meeting and 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.880 instructed all of them, all of the board members to 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:39.440 resign um quoting the quoting the Proud Boy right wing 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.360 organizing channel Western CHAVINIZTA. This comes after some of the 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.640 degenerate parasites in the system called educators, instructed kids to 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.560 describe a sex scene that they wouldn't show their mom. 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.840 Of course this didn't happen. This is this is they 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.880 these these things are not are not. These books are 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.680 not used in any kind of curriculum anyway. So even 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.880 even if they were that that we were not even 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.560 we're not even in that reality. Um. So the mayor 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:07.120 of this town basically got these instructed these instructed all 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.320 of these people to resign um. Earlier, I think in 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.200 mark No. In August of this year, pride flags were 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:21.119 banned at a at a school school district inside south 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.480 west Oregon. Um, I think around I think around Newburgh. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.880 The Newberg school district banned but banned pride flags. So 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.280 all this kind of stuff and and of course that 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.160 is in a lot of states. But the again, the 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.560 fact that it's in like Oregon, a blue state, is 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.560 people got made like you know, there's like you know, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.160 NBC articles about it. Because it's it's Oregon. It's not 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.960 it's it's it's not it's it's not a red state. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.560 So it's all big, it's all Portland, it's all Antifa, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.840 right yeah. Yeah, so again the stuff is not not 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.040 not like contained to one thing. And like yeah, if 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.720 you google the stuff around these books, if you google 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:57.080 like gender queer book, uh school boards, you'll find this 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.120 in so many school districts. You'll see just mobs of 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:04.640 people lined up yelling and screaming um and like like 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:09.280 printing out giant, like giant cardboard prints of of this 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.280 comic book showing like like with like you know, there's 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.200 like a dick on it, Like there's like a drawn 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.480 a drawn dick, because that's what human bodies look like. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.760 Like you can look at like a lot of like yeah, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.480 they're like what are you know, banned the statue of 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.200 David because he has this dick out too, like like 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.920 come on. And also these are the same people who 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.840 talk about like oh they're you know, banning books, burning books, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.520 you know, right, there was that there was that tweet 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.480 from like James Woods about like these are the books 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.040 that people want banned. That means they're the most important ones. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.600 But these people love. These people love like burning books. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.480 These people love banning books. They love cancel culture. That 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.360 the cultures that I was that I was in as 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.960 a kid, they would have like massive like book and 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.360 like c D and DVD burnings for like unlike unholy 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.720 and sinful media that you would like bring in and 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.960 like throw like your sinful music onto this giant fire. Like. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.720 These people love love burning book because they love they 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.800 love banning stuff. They love cancel culture. Um, but they 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.840 just like that. Yeah, So that was that was most 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.680 of my stuff around the kind of the ongoing queer 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.560 and trans stuff. Of course, you know, this ties into 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.119 the bathroom stuff as well, with the people showing up 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.919 to school board meetings to scream about you know, kids 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.639 going ship in the bathroom that they want to and 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.399 feel comfortable in. Um. You know. And again like it 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.359 doesn't it's not gonna stop with trans people either, right 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.080 as soon as they ban trans people, the next thing 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.159 is going to be oh, gay students, right it is 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.280 it never it's never stops, it always keeps going. Um. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.280 And it's just an ever present problem that it's gonna 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.840 require a lot more, a lot more dealing with and 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.160 again with all of these flash mobs, like no one, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.040 no one's gonna stop them because they're like the people 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.120 in power, They're the people that have all of the privilege. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.200 There's no really effective counter organizing for these school board 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.120 meetings right now. Um, the cops aren't gonna do ship. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.280 Security guards are't gonna do ship. Uh, and regular libs 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.800 and regular regular people are going to do shit either. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.240 And it's hard to figure out how to actually combat 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.000 this because there's a lot of times that the people 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.199 in school boards were like, no, we don't want this 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.240 to turn into a giant like fistfights, Like don't don't 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.640 come in mass to start fistfighting them. But there needs 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.639 to be something to combat, whether that be you know, 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.760 running running for school boards, just showing up outside school boards, 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.320 having just more people there in, having more presence there 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.960 so that it's not as overwhelmed by like a mob 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.639 of two hundred anti mask people showing up. Right there 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:34.080 needs to be some type of thing happening because no 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.840 one else needs to be countered and yeah, you know what, 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:38.920 they might need to get the ship kicked out of them. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:40.920 I'm sorry, but like I don't like I don't think 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.960 that would actually help in this instance, probably, but like 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.640 there needs to be fucking something like they they are. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:53.399 The level of boldness that they have is evidence that 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.399 they feel they are confident that there is no counter 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.800 to what there is going to be done. And perhaps 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.280 if they were being met by a wall of people 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.680 in the community who were willing, if they tried to 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.320 force their way into fucking throw down, you know, to say, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.719 you're not entering this building without a goddamn mask, You're 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:15.120 not shutting down this meeting. Um, I don't know, maybe 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.000 that would do something. I don't actually know what would 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.720 do something. If it was people just as regular people, 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.639 I think that would be. Yeah, it's certainly not going 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.280 to help if it's antifa, Um, for the love of God, 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.000 don't show up in fucking black block at a school 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.120 board meeting. Um, Like what would work is a bunch 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.159 of other middle aged parents showing up and being willing 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:38.159 to confront these people if and like everything that is 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.280 worth mentioning is that a lot of the people at 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:44.280 these protests like are not parents at all. Like they're 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:45.920 not they're not they're not even in the same school district. 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.640 They're just sort of like this this is just how 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.640 this is just how the sort of right wing outrage 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.399 machine has worked, and this is where they're drawing people. Yeah, 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.320 I mean and again like it's it's a lot of 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.280 the people in there, there's gonna be big do dudes 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:01.920 who want to fight, but a lot of the people 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.320 like screaming are are like you know, middle aged women. 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.160 The people who are like really like leading the charge 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.680 on this because they're able to use their privilege because 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:12.360 like no one's gonna stop them, right, So that that's 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.440 like when they're leading the charge of two people who 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.119 are gonna like scream and harass and chase out the 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.720 black security guards, chase out, chase out the all of this, 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:25.240 all the school remembers no one's they're they're very effective 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.720 at using their privilege to gain political ground by just 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.399 like doing stuff on the ground. It's like, you know, 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.040 it's like this is like the January six thing. It's 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:33.840 like the January six thing. This is the new future 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.639 of political action is just showing up in mass two 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.879 places where no one's gonna stop you because you're like 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:45.199 you're the you know, the good, relatable you know everyday 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:49.600 Yeah you're anyway, That's that's the stuff I had, will 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.639 probably have an ad break and then talk about maybe 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:57.680 some of how this stuff started. Speaking of using your privilege, 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.720 you know, what is the greatest privilege being able to 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.080